Kinda a thought that pops into my head from time to time about if people that lived well before writing wanted to leave an eternal legacy and at best we see their remains dressed in ornaments.

It's interesting to think that someone that lived 50k years ago paved a path for me in the sense that they probably exploded lands weren't known to their tribe or human at the, found new edible plants, or maybe created a new tool.

Crazy to think that there's billions of humans that I contributed to the life I have know and their names have long since been lost to time and that what I do today can still affect someone well into the future

I realized I boxed myself into a corner and put myself in solitude. I bad at asking for help.

Really it started when I got pulled over by a cop on my bike for not having lights at night. The interaction did suck because I had to ID myself and turn back home, but that was nothing. Really the cop stopped me from doing a felony(I won't say exactly what it is but I have gotten support to do it. No i didn't intend to harm any innocent person) that I was stressing about doing and dragged myself into doing because I thought it was "public service". Like I thought I was well prepared but I failed so fast.

Everything ICE has done in the news has stressed me out to the point of not following the news. I did join a group of protesters, which was fun. I came up with a plan to deal with ice that's near impossible to detect with human senses and of course I won't articulate in this post. The idea of maming an ice agents weighs heavy on me, like I imagine myself being disabled. Also escalation in the conflict between ice and public. I spaced out writing that sentence. I hope that the peaceful resolution is that it simply gets too expensive for ice to operate and they simply reduce the scope of their operations.

All these emotions have made me mildly depressed and I feel like it's effecting my involvement with DSA, like im missing meeting I don't intend to and I'm not enthusiastic about the meetings, but I also wish my chapter did more in my area, I do feel like I'm waiting for them to announce something

Thought about Jordan Peterson was put into a coma to get over his addiction to sleep aids. The drugs he took would have killed him if he went cold turkey, same with alcohol, but with other drugs it's perfectly fine to go cold turkey.

Like I could see if you have an addiction to pain meds and cravings are too much

I wish I could tag this as discussion.

I'm getting little annoyed at people only say "protest are useless" then proceed to suggest nothing and do nothing just to keep us in a state of complacency with the status quo.

Protest do have a function they do show those in power that people are opposed to policy or politician, but more importantly they show that other people the people that live in their city or local area are willing to show their political stance publicly. It can raise awareness and pull people in the margin to your side. from what I experience, it can show the right that they wont act on their violent words.

I get that the opposition to protest say that it never changed anything or trump continues to act crazy, and I'd say that we need to do more in addition to the protest not that we shouldn't do protest. I'll need someone that advocate not doing protest to speak in the comment.

I want to see protest "upgrade" from a gathering of people to meet-and-greets and concert. If you are at a protest you should actually enjoy it, show off your signs explain it to other protestors, and talk with other people on what to do locally. I would suggest promoting a business at a protest.

protest are good way to get around social media algorithms

Reminder of the details for those of you who have a hazy memory of the finale. ICE looked at Vic Mackey's resume including many charges, complaints and allegations of excessive force, and that he was a prime suspect in multiple murder investigations, and said "Yes please! Have full immunity!"

Good thing nothing like that would ever happen in real life.

So I made a script that post once every 8 hours or where I start the script. The script will post to random c/ that has subscribers but low activity from a corresponding subreddit in hopes of jump starting it.

I do like the features where the image/video is simply put the url into the URL of a lemmy post so Reddit host the file and lemmy instances simply have to send text.

So far it has been a success. While I was building the script and making it post to my very niche 1 sub community the post ended up getting a few comments and over a dozen up votes. Which is great because I got surprised and I got to engage with other users and learn about something new.

Really the challenge is to find existing communities that don't have a active counterpart, have subscribers, have little to no activity, and something I have knowledge over. It would be strange to have something posted randomly and know nothing about that community or post or I have to spend 10 minutes figuring out what got posted

I'm an LGBT ally, but I decided to show support with LGBT flag in a pretty red area next to highway. I got the f slur thrown at me and a fishing reel handle thrown at me (didn't hit me). Just the experience itself affects me. Idk how the LGBT community in general does it or if it's just different for everyone.

I guess it was a small number of people. There was some love.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/53257330

I Joined a group of protestors in support and solidarity of one of our own being murdered and having horrendous things happening to them

I like putting memoirs of the protests I go to on Lemmy in hopes that it inspires others to go out, do things, explore, and take action. I had fun and who knew waving and dancing at traffic like an idiot could be so entertaining.

**Intro: ** I heard about the protest at a meal share that PDSA was doing the day before and I actually wanted to reach out to them to inform them of the Flock cameras that were next to the bridge. Then I wanted to get more involved since they were coming to my city and I could take my e-bike to protest.

Meeting up: So it was awkward getting to the meetup location. I knew they were getting lunch beforehand and I showed up early to the point and kinda waited for them with my book bag. I even walked into the restaurant asking the staff if I was meeting up with a party who I had no idea what they looked like or how many there were, so I had to go back outside and wait. Eventually they found me and we met up.

Early part of the protest: The original group of 4, including me, got set up and I erected the flagpole I carried in the background. As we got onto the bridge the wind picked up which was good for the flags but just murder on any signs. The sign I brought got ripped out of my hands and fell into the harbor and made its way into the Gulf of Mexico. The sign read "ICE MELTS in FL". More people trickled in and I see more signs in memory of Renee Good and two inflatable costumes (one Cookie Monster and one baby Trump). I did come across the woman I met from the first No Kings Day protest (I recognized her from her oxygen concentrator) and apparently she has been to all the No Kings protests. I told her I was the guy that had the Palestinian flag. Two men showed up with three flags: Dominican Republic, Honduras, and I think Colombia was the third one. I tried my best to get their flags to show off what colorful flags these countries have. I tried to give him a DSA pin I have so that he could pin part of the flag to his shirt, but he ended up wearing it. I showed off my megaphone I brought and when I set it up the Spanish speakers asked me to say "Chinga la Migra" and I gave them several takes and kept saying "I'm trying my best." (I looked it up and it means fuck the border patrol/ICE lol).

Response from the traffic: Apparently it is mostly positive but I never know if a honked horn is positive or negative, but I treat it as positive anyway. Some people put their hands out to wave or waved in the car. I did hear a bit of cheering from the cars. I am gonna say the negative attention was way more hilarious. I could not hear everyone from their cars because of the wind and traffic, but one couple was red in the face and yelling at the group. People were flipping us off from their car cabin as I waved and smiled. My favorite was the guy who pantomimed turning the car into the group even though there was a concrete barrier in front of us, so I kind of wished they did just for the adrenaline. The craziest thing was when I separated from the group to take pictures from the top of the bridge with my LGBT flag held high and some guy on the passenger side of the truck called me the f-slur then threw a metal handle to a fishing reel at me. The handle never hit me but it made a ping sound and it was left on the bridge. I wanted to believe it was a metal pipe and they could not get any more drugs.

Later parts of the protest: I came across a pedestrian and bike rider who thanked me for protesting, and I tried to say thanks for the support and after an awkward pause they told me Jesus died for me (definitely was a hard thing for them to say). Then some teenagers came and took some pics. I thought they were the same guys who threw the handle, but they were interested in what everyone was doing and I posed in the picture. The rest was me throwing my heart at people and waving until everyone wrapped up and said goodbye.

protest was in a deep red area that consistently goes to republicans in elections

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/53257330

I Joined a group of protestors in support and solidarity of one of our own being murdered and having horrendous things happening to them

I like putting memoirs of the protests I go to on Lemmy in hopes that it inspires others to go out, do things, explore, and take action. I had fun and who knew waving and dancing at traffic like an idiot could be so entertaining.

**Intro: ** I heard about the protest at a meal share that PDSA was doing the day before and I actually wanted to reach out to them to inform them of the Flock cameras that were next to the bridge. Then I wanted to get more involved since they were coming to my city and I could take my e-bike to protest.

Meeting up: So it was awkward getting to the meetup location. I knew they were getting lunch beforehand and I showed up early to the point and kinda waited for them with my book bag. I even walked into the restaurant asking the staff if I was meeting up with a party who I had no idea what they looked like or how many there were, so I had to go back outside and wait. Eventually they found me and we met up.

Early part of the protest: The original group of 4, including me, got set up and I erected the flagpole I carried in the background. As we got onto the bridge the wind picked up which was good for the flags but just murder on any signs. The sign I brought got ripped out of my hands and fell into the harbor and made its way into the Gulf of Mexico. The sign read "ICE MELTS in FL". More people trickled in and I see more signs in memory of Renee Good and two inflatable costumes (one Cookie Monster and one baby Trump). I did come across the woman I met from the first No Kings Day protest (I recognized her from her oxygen concentrator) and apparently she has been to all the No Kings protests. I told her I was the guy that had the Palestinian flag. Two men showed up with three flags: Dominican Republic, Honduras, and I think Colombia was the third one. I tried my best to get their flags to show off what colorful flags these countries have. I tried to give him a DSA pin I have so that he could pin part of the flag to his shirt, but he ended up wearing it. I showed off my megaphone I brought and when I set it up the Spanish speakers asked me to say "Chinga la Migra" and I gave them several takes and kept saying "I'm trying my best." (I looked it up and it means fuck the border patrol/ICE lol).

Response from the traffic: Apparently it is mostly positive but I never know if a honked horn is positive or negative, but I treat it as positive anyway. Some people put their hands out to wave or waved in the car. I did hear a bit of cheering from the cars. I am gonna say the negative attention was way more hilarious. I could not hear everyone from their cars because of the wind and traffic, but one couple was red in the face and yelling at the group. People were flipping us off from their car cabin as I waved and smiled. My favorite was the guy who pantomimed turning the car into the group even though there was a concrete barrier in front of us, so I kind of wished they did just for the adrenaline. The craziest thing was when I separated from the group to take pictures from the top of the bridge with my LGBT flag held high and some guy on the passenger side of the truck called me the f-slur then threw a metal handle to a fishing reel at me. The handle never hit me but it made a ping sound and it was left on the bridge. I wanted to believe it was a metal pipe and they could not get any more drugs.

Later parts of the protest: I came across a pedestrian and bike rider who thanked me for protesting, and I tried to say thanks for the support and after an awkward pause they told me Jesus died for me (definitely was a hard thing for them to say). Then some teenagers came and took some pics. I thought they were the same guys who threw the handle, but they were interested in what everyone was doing and I posed in the picture. The rest was me throwing my heart at people and waving until everyone wrapped up and said goodbye.